Reptiles and Aniphihians of Illinois. 273 



Retina hherii^, Bd. and Gir., Cat.N. A. Kept., Ft. 1., 1853, p. 45.— 

 Kenn., Trans. 111. State Agr. Soc, 1853-54, 1., p. 592. 



TnipUlonotiis /(^berls; Dum. et J?ibr., Erp. Gen., 1854, VII., p. 579, 

 — Davis and Rice, Bull. 111. State Lab. Nat. Hist., I., No. 5, 

 1883, p. 41; Bull. Chicago Acad. Sci., 1883.— S. (Jarman, Mem. 

 Mus. Comp. Zool., 1883, pp. 27, 142, pi. 2, fig. 1. 



Body moderately slender. Head small. Tail rather short. 

 Dorsal scales all carinate, the outer* very faintly, in nineteea 

 rows. Rostral wide and low, excavated beneath. One ( !) nasal, 

 grooved below the nostril, sometimes also above. Two anteor- 

 bitals. Two postorbitals. Supralabials seven or eight; fifth 

 and sixth largest. Infralabials nine or ten; fourth and fifth 

 largest. Dorsal rows nineteen; scales of outer row widest. 

 Ventrals 140-149. Anal divided. Subcaudals 64-81. Tail 

 about three tenths the length of the body. 



Color above brown, with a blackish line occupying the 

 median row of dorsal scales, and on each side similar lines 

 occupying the fifth row. On the sides a straw-colored band 

 occupies the upper half of the outer row and the whole of the 

 second dorsal rows. Lower half of outer dorsal row and outer 

 margins of the abdominal scutes occupied by a brown band. 

 Beneath yellowish, with two longitudinal bands of brown. 

 Labials and lower part of rostral yellowish. A small brown 

 spot beneath the angle of the mouth. 



Throughout the State. Cook county, Greneva, Galesburg. 



Similar to B. grahami in the number of dorsal scales and 

 number and form of the head plates, but differing in color, the 

 average number of ventral and subcaudal scutes, and the pro- 

 portional length of the tail. 



Ventrals, 147. Subcaudals, 72. Total length, 12.50; tail, 3. 



Ventrals, 14U. Subcaudals, 79. Total length, S.r)0: tail, 

 2.()2. 



Regina grahami, Bd. and Gir. 



Regina grahami/'. Bd. and Gir., Cat. N. A. Rept., Ft. I., 1853, p. 



47.— Kenn., Trans. 111. State Agr. Soc, 1853-54, I., p. 592. 

 Tropido/intHs ijrahatal, Davis and Rice, Bull. 111. State Lab. Nat. 



Hist., I., No. 5, 1883, p. 41; Bull. Chicago Acad. Sci., 1883. 

 T rapid onoti IS Jeheris, var. grahamii, S. Garman, Mem. Mus. 



Comp. Zool., 1883, pp. 28, 142. 



